On the Road with Wellington: The Diary of a War Commissary in the Peninsula Campaigns

August Ludolf Friedrich Schaumann; Anthony M. Ludovici

Verlag: William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1924

Beschreibung

A first edition of this translated account of a war commissary in the Peninsula Campaigns, with illustrations. First edition. Illustrated with colour frontispiece and nineteen colour tipped in plates. Collated complete. A detailed diary of the Peninsula Campaigns from a War Commissary, with reference to the camps and quarters, the march to Spain, troubles in Astorga, positioning the army, various attacks, and much more. Written by August Ludolf Friedrich Schaumann, Deputy Assistant Commissary-General in the British Service. Edited and translated by Anthony Mario Ludovici, a British philosopher, sociologist, and social critic. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and marks to the boards. Hinges tender but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd handling mark and light spotting to the endpapers. Contemporary pencil inscription to the front endpaper. Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 869T21

Bibliografische Details

Titel: On the Road with Wellington: The Diary of a ...

Verlag: William Heinemann Ltd, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1924

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: None

Zustand: Good

Auflage: First edition.

Art des Buches: book